@aral I was making a point of how surveillance is not a Google-specific thing. It's a mega-corpo thing, Apple included.
Regarding the "Google apps", FairPhone gives you the option to use these apps if you have (or want) to. It comes with Android stock, yeah, but you can also use a non-Google, non-tracking OS with it, which is more than I can say about iPhones. They're doing a hell of a lot more than Apple is regarding e-waste, repairability and sustainability.
So yeah, it's pretty damn funny.